Seattle

It's hard to find something not related to the economic crisis right now, but I'm looking through cnn.com and came across this article over Seattle. I've always liked Seattle, maybe because my dad was a big Frasier fan, so I look through it.

I find it to be a good example of blurring the line between Advertising and PR. Like a lot of students, I switched from Advertising to PR to graduate earlier, thinking there's not a big difference between the two. This article shows why people sometimes think that.

I was in a class where the professor said PR is credible and Advertising is incredible. Incredible meaning unbelieveable, not in the awe-inspiring sort of way, but more along the lines of not being believable. Basically, they're full of it.

Had this been on a travel website or a commercial on TV, I wouldn't have paid as much attention to it. Commercials can make Arizona look like a tropical paradise; but it was on cnn.com, making it seem strange that it looked a lot like a paid advertisement.

The article doesn't just give you general attractions in the city, but gives you specific names, websites, prices, and sometimes even phone numbers. It's like your own personal travel agent hacked into CNN.